To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' departure from Leiden in 1620, this international conference (Leiden, August 26-28, 2020) will challenge the traditional Anglo-American binary and prioritize a "four nations" approach to include also Native American and Dutch perspectives....
“American Literacy Narratives” at the NEMLA Conference, Boston, MA, March 5-8, 2020
Literacy Narratives have been a cornerstone of American life writing since the earliest times of American literary production. From Frederick Douglass’s “learning to read” segment in his Narrative of the...
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MELUS Scholarly Panel
Meeting Memory: Addressing the Past In the Present
The invocation of memory in spaces like a wake or funeral is often mitigated by conventional formalities, or by a particular order of things. Memory’s unruly return outside of accepted...
CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS: Vernacular Architecture Forum 2020 Annual Meeting, Vernacular Landscapes of San Antonio and Central Texas, May 6 to May 9, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas.
The Vernacular Architecture Forum (www.vafweb.org)...
The Call for Posters for our 2020 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia is now open through October 7, 2019. Poster proposers will be informed of their acceptance by late October. Please note that all accepted poster presenters must submit a non-refundable registration fee for the annual meeting by...
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IASPM-US 2020 Conference: “BPM: Bodies, Places, Movements”
May 21-23, 2020
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual conference, which will take place in Ann...
On November 9, 1989, the East Berlin's Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders, leading to speculations of a “world without borders.” Yet, as Elisabeth Vallet argues, a renewed emphasis on wall-building since this epoch-marking event has become...
